What was your background prior to entering this challenge? We are a team of computer science and statistics academics. Ruslan Salakhutdinov and Geoff Hinton are professors at the University of Toronto. George Dahl and Navdeep Jaitly are Ph.D. students working with Professor Hinton. Christopher "Gomez" Jordan-Squire is in the mathematics Ph.D. program at the University of Washington, studying (constrained) optimization applied to statistics and machine learning. With the exception of Chris, whose research interests are somewhat different, we are highly ...